Mongrel

(n.) The progeny resulting from a cross between two breeds, as of domestic animals; anything of mixed breed.

(a.) Not of a pure breed.

(a.) Of mixed kinds; as, mongrel language.

阿曼达录入

• Such alone are the unimportant differences which Gartner is able to point out between hybrid and mongrel plants. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• A shaggy little damaged man, withal, not unlike an old dog of some mongrel breed, who has been considerably knocked about. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Andros, said Justinian emphatically, is not a true Greek, but a mongrel from the island of that name, where I found him a shepherd lad. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• To inquire what he might have done, if he had had any boldness, would be like inquiring what a mongrel cur might do, if it had the spirit of a tiger. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Hybrid plants produced from a reciprocal cross generally resemble each other closely, and so it is with mongrel plants from a reciprocal cross. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• The variability, however, in the successive generations of mongrels is, perhaps, greater than in hybrids. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• This greater variability in mongrels than in hybrids does not seem at all surprising. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Both hybrids and mongrels can be reduced to either pure parent form, by repeated crosses in successive generations with either parent. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.

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